A 60-mile claw reaching out into Lake Superior along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw is the northernmost peninsula in a state full of dramatic peninsulas. Its sparse population and dramatic scenery inspires secluded nomadic roamings through forested hills and across an inland waterway, the Portage Canal, that technically separates it from the main Upper Peninsula. The canal’s name means “Keweenaw” in Ojibwe, the Native American language indigenous to the region, and describes how the canal and inland lakes helped connect the region to the mainland. Although it doesn’t have the glacial lakes and alpine views of a western road trip, its position on the deepest Great Lake amidst 60-foot waterfalls and countless scene-stealing hikes is not a bad substitute.